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Montaña de Tindaya

La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

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Montaña de Tindaya

Monument · La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

A mountain some 400 metres high formed by a quartz-trachyte dome, held sacred by the ancient Majos: it preserves more than 300 podomorphic (foot-shaped) carvings oriented towards Mount Teide, on Tenerife, and towards Gran Canaria. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) and a Monumento Natural (Natural Monument), it was the site where sculptor Eduardo Chillida planned in 1993 a large work hollowed out of its interior, a project that, after 26 years of opposition from environmentalists and archaeologists, was definitively abandoned in 2019.

Photo: Frank Vincentz (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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